Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/4: Announcing new packages before uploading them
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Maybe a slightly stricter syntax for closing bugs, so I may
> mention things like "This is similar to Bug#12345 on package xyz. We
> are still lokking for a solution".
>
> Maybe the check should eb for "This closes Bug#*** BUG#***"
> (concatenatnig the line before the match, of course). This will
> prevent spurious bug closures, and does not impose a major burden on
> package maintainers.
I don't like overloading the changelog like this (no, I don't use release).
How about extending the changelog format so we have a field for closed bugs?
Something like:
foo (1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low closes=10002,11930,10109
* Fix wibble() and splat() to not use bar().
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:34:42 -0500
Then you don't have to worry about inaverdently closing bugs, and you don't
have any nastly looking thing in the changelog.
--
see shy jo
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